tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post4849939196190347436..comments2014-12-14T08:20:01.603-05:00Comments on uncomfortably dumb: Captain of our soulsHolden Caulfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06048017597855870900noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post-42771820548597117162008-01-31T14:17:00.000-05:002008-01-31T14:17:00.000-05:00I wouldn't be surprised if these guys go to Chines...I wouldn't be surprised if these guys go to Chinese forums and disparage their ancestor worship. Some of your ancestors were probably pedophiles; so why hold them in respect. blah blah blah.bhaisahibnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post-23263034898053105082007-11-25T23:59:00.000-05:002007-11-25T23:59:00.000-05:00Holden,Anonymous is confused and seems to be high ...Holden,<BR/><BR/>Anonymous is confused and seems to be high on the other opium - atheism. Your posts are great. Keep them coming -- whenever you find time ;)<BR/><BR/>MegMegnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post-48830397720791886922007-07-17T03:21:00.000-05:002007-07-17T03:21:00.000-05:00You will not allow any slanted comments on his mon...You will not allow any slanted comments on his monastic order? Way to go with your tolerance and respect for free speech. As I said, I do not ignore "everything else that they have done." As a former student of one of the most respected RKM schools, I know it well enough; I acknowledge them just as I acknowledge Mother Teresa. However, their "dark corners" need to be confronted too. They could Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post-5461267437761801202007-07-17T00:41:00.000-05:002007-07-17T00:41:00.000-05:00It seems you are uneducated about the Ramakrishna ...It seems you are uneducated about the Ramakrishna Mission. What's more, you have a distorted view of 'religion', but you have already shown enough signs of being a religious nut, only your religion is of a different variety. <BR/><BR/><I>As for Narendranath, the man did some good things</I><BR/><BR/>Your conceit is deplorable. It sems to me the education system has failed you. You have been Holden Caulfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06048017597855870900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post-14714963538313589292007-07-16T09:32:00.000-05:002007-07-16T09:32:00.000-05:00Well, I went to a Ramakrishna Mission school for a...Well, I went to a Ramakrishna Mission school for a few years, so I know them for what they are. Neither do I see them as only doing good or evil things- it's more complex than that. But they are a religious establishment and can only be as good as a religious establishment can be. I am generally sad that the secular education system in Bengal to the extent that the religious schools- Hindu and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post-89883309550645247882007-07-15T23:54:00.000-05:002007-07-15T23:54:00.000-05:00Your comment is in bad taste, because:1. In a post...Your comment is in bad taste, because:<BR/>1. In a post on a great soul, you have managed to find a slanted perspective, which is removed from the topic at hand: Swami Vivekananda. If you are a self-styled atheist, you might call him Narendranath Dutta. <BR/><BR/>2. You seem to have no respect for people who have achieved great things. Not only that, you have failed to pick the pearls. Probably Holden Caulfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06048017597855870900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112619771632209718.post-79772895601662508472007-07-15T20:11:00.000-05:002007-07-15T20:11:00.000-05:00The senior monks of the Ramakrishna Mission have a...The senior monks of the Ramakrishna Mission have also covered up many abuses by pedophilic monks. The situation is eerily similar to that involving the Catholic church in America, with abusers merely transferred rather than disciplined, etc. Maybe monastic life draws in the pathological, maybe the pressures of celibacy do this to people. I don't know. But<BR/>as someone with friends who suffered Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com